2013-06-14 - Taft Theatre Ballroom, Cincinnati
Peter and JD duo show. recording
Setlist
Banter
- [audience compliments JD's hair] My hair doesn't just look great. My hair is killing it. Oft times you have heard the new age of peace and harmony is upon us on the earth, but it's always been a lie, until my hair got like this. Now you know. Now you know that the time for human beings to walk in hand with others with joy and love in their hearts for one another, and social justice in their minds, is upon us at last. You know how you know? My hair.
- So this song takes its chorus from a video came called Odin Sphere. [cheering] I always want to call it Odin Quest. It's not called Odin Quest. If they make a game called Odin Quest, I will just never get things straight again. In Odin Sphere there's often the stuff that I like to imagine has something to do with Japanese mythology which if you've seen some Ike movies you know, Japanese mythology is a whole world that we know nothing about in the US - like, suddenly something will happen and you'll go, wow, it seems like I'm supposed to understand this but it's very bizarre. And this whole game is, y'know, your character is bouncing along collecting sprites and so on and so forth, and then you wake up and you're a rabbit in Hell. [laughter] Now. This has happened to me a time or two, so I knew that this was a game for me. I was like, oh, wow, they made one for those of us who sometimes woke up as rabbits in the underworld. Kick-ass. I appreciate them thinking of us. But then, in your rabbit form, you run across some people who get very upset with - I think it's actually a parable about privilege, but I'm not entirely sure - but at any rate, a person suffering from a curse runs across one not so cursed, and the uncursed ones have some choice words - no, the cursed ones have some choice words for those who don't get it. [?] (Enoch 18:14)
- By special request of Mr. Peter Hughes: Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace. Originally entitled 'Jesús Malverde and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace,' but I got superstitious. (Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace)
- I have to give you a long spiel about what just happened. I don't like the word success, but how - how good a show seems to us, for me anyways, is how lost I can get. And the more people that are present, the harder it is to get lost, because you feel like, all these people all have their eyes on me. What if they're mad, fuck, ah, fuck, they're mad, you get pretty self conscious. You can get completely hammered to get over this but this isn't a good strategy. You don't perform as well, people like it, but for all the wrong reasons. So, y'know, that becomes the discipline of touring, you have to learn how to vanish into yourself in front of people, and at the same time, try to maintain a connection with them. It's kind of a really awesome dance when you get it right, but it's, unless you're Liza Minelli, impossible to get right every night. So. I got so fuckin' lost during that, I was out there in space. Thank you for that. It's one of those things - there's probably performers who take full credit for it, when it happens, but it's a communal experience. That's why you bother with shows. Something awesome can happen when someone goes to another planet and reports back from there.
- In his complex grave, my stepfather is rejoicing that I ad-libbed "Full Communism Now" on a stage. (Commandante)
- This song is for Tracy, and for Brad, and for Ivory, and for Quinn, and Devin, the only one of them I know for sure is still alive. (Linda Blair was Born Innocent)
- This is a song for your divorce. You may not think you're gonna get a divorce. And there's a good chance you won't. There's a better chance you will. Now when, on that bright morning of your divorce, you realize that it is in fact the bright morning of your divorce, well, I want you to have a song in your heart. Just for the hell of it. 'Cause if things are about to get very very very funky in your life, you should at least have a song to get funky with. This song is somewhat deficient on the funk, but long on the with. (No Children)
- I got an electric keyboard! I could do this! [plays opening chord in an organ tone]
Peter: Perfect.
Baptist Generals guy: Now wait a minute. Wait a minute, John. [JD continues playing in organ tone] (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton)